The City of Sighs: Venice's Desperate Bid to Stay Afloat | Heavy Lift | Full Episode

Episode: Walls of Venice
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Venice, the most romantic city of the world is dying under the weight of subsidence, rising waters and tourists. Over the last century it has sunk 12 centimeters, leaving its foundations and the millions of wooden poles it is built on, exposed to erosion and rot. For the last thirty years engineers have planned one of the most ambitious moving dyke projects in the world, dogged by indecision and scandal. Today the Mose - the mobile sea walls the city never needed in the past - are almost ready to be used.
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